Crochet hook



April 1953 G. A. CARLSON 2,635,444

CROCHET HOOK Filed Nov. 1, 1949 IN VEN TOR.

Patented Apr. 21, 1953 CROCHET HOOK Gustav A. Carlson, Chicago, Ill., assignor to The Boye Needle Company, Chicago, 111., a comaration of Illinois Application November 1, 1949, Serial No. 124,870

2 Claims. (01. 66-118) This invention relates to a crochet hook or the like.

In the manufacture of crochet hooks, it has heretofore been the practice to employ a hook or beak connected by a cylindrical throat or stitch-forming neck to the main body of the hook. The side faces of the head of the hook or beak are bulging and rounded so as to merge with the rounded walls of the neck or stitchforming throat. Such a structure is illustrated in my patent No. 2,024,794.

While the foregoing structure is a desirable structure, I have discovered that .the movement of the stitches onto and off of the hook is surprisingly improved by making the sides of the head and preferably also the throat portion of the structure flat. Thus the side Walls of the throat and head form a substantially continuous taper and with relatively wide and flat side faces.

An object of the invention is to provide a crochet hook having flattened side faces on its head. A further object is to provide a crochet hook having a body portion tapering at its front toward a hook head and with the sides of the head and tapered portion flattened. Other speciflc objects and advantages will appear as the specification proceeds.

The invention is illustrated in a single embodiment, by the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a crochet hook embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a broken enlarged side view in elevation; Fig. 3, a top plan view; and Fig. 4, a transverse sectional view, the section being taken as indicated at line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

In the illustration given, in designates 2. cylindrical crochet hook body which, if desired, may be flattened in a horizontal plane at H. Forwardly of the flattened portion I I, the structure is provided with a tapering stitch-forming portion or throat l2 which merges into the head [3. The head I3 is provided with a beak M which preferably extends rearwardly, as illustrated more clearly in Figs. 2 and 3.

In the structure shown, I prefer to form the crochet hook structure at its forward end with flat side walls I5 and it. The flattened side walls may extend across the entire outer portion of the head and preferably also extend rearwardly along the neck or throat portion 12 of the hook. If desired, the top portion of the throat l2 may be flattened as indicated at H in Fig. 3. Further, if desired, the top portion 2 of the throat may be left rounded and the sides of the head and throat only flattened in the vertical plane.

In the operation of the hook, the stitches are formed as in the usual practice, by the flattened sides which are found to give a much smoother and faster crocheting operation. Why the stitches move so readily and quickly along the crochet hook, I am unable to say with definiteness but it is a fact that the flattened side walls of the head and neck or throat of the structure enable the stitches to be moved in either direction with great speed and smoothness and the crocheting operation is greatly speeded up. It may be that the greatest point of frictional resistance in the crocheting operation has been along the sides of the head and throat and that by providing these surfaces with relatively wide flat areas that the stitches work against a much smaller area of resistance and slide much more easily over such surfaces.

In the operation of the hook, a stitch is drawn onto the hook and the hook then passed through the material to engage in the thread. In so doing, the stitch-forming throat or portion I2 preforms the loop so that it may be readily slipped over the head and then the new stitch is drawn forwardly. In this operation, a minimum of frictional area engages the loop that is being formed so that it slides very readily over the head, etc.

While in the foregoing specification I have set forth a structure in considerable detail for the purpose of illustrating one embodiment of the invention, it will be understood that such details of structure may be varied widely by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim:

1. In a crochet hook, a main body portion of generally circular cross section and provided at one end with a tapered portion terminating in a head, said head being provided with a beak, said tapered portion being rounded on its bottom side and provided on its upper side adjacent said beak with a widely flattened upper wall portion terminating at its end opposite said beak in a pointed area within said body end, said head and end portion being flattened along their sides to provide flat side walls intersecting the flattened upper wall of said end except at the pointed portion of said flattened upper wall portion.

2. In a crochet hook, a main body portion of generally circular cross section and provided at 4 one end with a tapered portion terminating in tion, said beak being tapered and having its a head, said head being provided with a beak, broadest end adjacent said flattened portion on said tapered portion being rounded on its bot; the top of said body end. tom side and provided on its upper side adjacen said beak with a widely flattened upper wall 5 v GUSTAV CARLSON portion terminating at its end opposite said References Cited in the file of this patent beak in a pointed area within said body end, said head and end portion being flattened along their UNITED STATES PATENTS sides to provide flat side walls intersecting the Number Name Date flattened upper wall of said end except at the 10 1,303,327 Jensen May 13, 1919 pointed portion of said flattened top wall por- 

